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Kashmir: Modi drags India into Hindutva fascism

Dar es Salaam, Aug. 9 -- Narendra Modi could have been right, only if he had acted democratically with the consent of the Kashmiri people. His supporters may point out that in repealing Kashmir's special autonomous status, Modi acted democratically as he was only fulfilling an election promise. Adolf Hitler also gave election promises, the fulfillment of which is a bloody chapter in world history today.

Democracy could be dangerous and this is aptly being proved in India, where the Hindu nationalist Modi government with its near steamroller majority is turning Asia's temple of democracy into a fort of fascism.

In Modi's India, an entire region's people have been denied their right over a matter that directly involves their lives, freedom...